Authors: Paul Verlaine, C F Macintyre
ISBN-13: 9780520251786, ISBN-10: 0520251784
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: May 2007
Edition: Bilingual
Paul Verlaine, author of works including Romance sans paroles and Sagesse, was elected France's "Prince of Poets" by his peers in 1894.
The influential French poet, Symbolist leader, and Decadent Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) was recognized as a groundbreaking writer even in his own lifetimehis stylistic innovations brought a new musicality to French poetry and paved the way for free verse and other twentieth-century techniques and experiments. This selection of poems, with the French text en face, provides a comprehensive selection of Verlaine's verse together with a lucid introduction illuminating his life and works.
A Street in Bronzeville | 3 | |
kitchenette building | 3 | |
the mother | 4 | |
southeast corner | 5 | |
hunchback girl: she thinks of heaven | 5 | |
a song in the front yard | 6 | |
the ballad of chocolate Mabbie | 7 | |
the preacher: ruminates behind the sermon | 8 | |
Sadie and Maud | 8 | |
the independent man | 9 | |
of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery | 10 | |
the vacant lot | 11 | |
The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith | 12 | |
Negro Hero | 19 | |
gay chaps at the bar | 22 | |
still do I keep my look, my identity ... | 23 | |
my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell | 23 | |
looking | 24 | |
piano after war | 24 | |
mentors | 25 | |
the white troops had their orders but the Negroes looked like men | 25 | |
firstly inclined to take what it is told | 26 | |
"God works in a mysterious way" | 27 | |
love note I: surely | 27 | |
love note II: flags | 28 | |
the progress | 28 | |
Notes from the Childhood and the Girlhood | 33 | |
Clogged and soft and sloppy eyes | 33 | |
Chicken, she chided early, should not wait | 33 | |
After the baths and bowel-work, he was dead | 34 | |
Late Annie in her bower lay | 34 | |
The duck fats rot in the roasting pan | 35 | |
"Do not be afraid of no" | 36 | |
But can see better there, and laughing there | 37 | |
Think of sweet and chocolate | 38 | |
You need the untranslatable ice to watch | 50 | |
The Certainty we two shall meet by God | 51 | |
Oh mother, mother, where is happiness | 51 | |
The Womanhood | 52 | |
People who have no children can be hard | 52 | |
What shall I give my children? who are poor | 53 | |
And shall I prime my children, pray, to pray? | 53 | |
First fight. Then fiddle. Ply the slipping string | 54 | |
When my dears die, the festival-colored brightness | 54 | |
Life for my child is simple, and is good | 55 | |
Sweet Sally took a cardboard box | 56 | |
A light and diplomatic bird | 57 | |
Carried her unprotesting out the door | 58 | |
They get to Benvenuti's. There are booths | 59 | |
The dry brown coughing beneath their feet | 61 | |
And if sun comes | 62 | |
One wants a Teller in a time like this | 63 | |
People protest in sprawling lightless ways | 64 | |
Men of careful turns, haters of forks in the road | 65 | |
In Honor of David Anderson Brooks, My Father | 69 | |
My Little 'Bout-town Gal | 70 | |
Strong Men, Riding Horses | 71 | |
The Bean Eaters | 72 | |
We Real Cool | 73 | |
Old Mary | 74 | |
A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi, Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon | 75 | |
The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till | 81 | |
Mrs. Small | 82 | |
Jessie Mitchell's Mother | 85 | |
The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock | 87 | |
The Lovers of the Poor | 90 | |
A Sunset of the City | 94 | |
A Man of the Middle Class | 96 | |
The Crazy Woman | 99 | |
Bronzeville Man with a Belt in the Back | 100 | |
A Lovely Love | 101 | |
A Penitent Considers Another Coming of Mary | 102 | |
Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat | 103 | |
In Emanuel's Nightmare: Another Coming of Christ | 107 | |
The Ballad of Rudolph Reed | 110 | |
Riders to the Blood-red Wrath | 115 | |
The Empty Woman | 119 | |
To Be in Love | 120 | |
Of Robert Frost | 122 | |
Langston Hughes | 123 | |
A Catch of Shy Fish | 124 | |
garbageman: the man with the orderly mind | 124 | |
sick man looks at flowers | 124 | |
old people working (garden, car) | 125 | |
weaponed woman | 125 | |
old tennis player | 125 | |
a surrealist and Omega | 126 | |
Spaulding and Francois | 126 | |
Big Bessie throws ber son into the street | 127 | |
About Gwendolyn Brooks | 129 |